7th January 2021, 3:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 7th January 2021, 3:22 PM by A Black Falcon.)
1) With Pence apparently refusing to enact the 25th Amendment on our dangrous, lunatic, coup-wanting President, impeachment must begin immediately. I hope that we can get more Republicans in the Senate this time than we did last time. The House and Senate will act quickly on this, expect a lot more news about this soon I think.
2) All members of the House and Senate that voted for the coup by voting to refuse certification of Arizona and Pennsylvania's votes -- and this is 7 Senators and a full ~120 members of the House, over half of the Republican delegation -- should be immediately expelled from Congress and potentially charged as well if what they did qualifies as sedition. I watched almost eight hours of the count yesterday; I usually don't watch that kind of thing, but couldn't stop myself and watched most of the time from 8pm to the final finish nat like 3:45am. The House Republicans tried to couch their voite as being "about just making sure the vote is accurate" and about how much thhey disliked Pennsylvania's election laws (because see laws enacted by a Secretary of State or a court should not count, the Constitution says that only a legislature may make election laws!), but that they only object to one race on that ballot makes it clear that that was a blatant pack of lies, as one of the best speeches of the night, Conor Lamb's, made clear. No, no matter what lies they had in their words, their votes were more telling. They voted as they did to show their support for Donald Trump and his mob of MAGA insurrectionists above all and they should not stay in the Congress. They probably WILL stay in congress to be clear, I can't see them actually being thrown out, but they shouldn't.
3) If those efforts fail, let's just hope Trump is blocked from doing anything significant in the two weeks he has left.
On that note, we now know that the Capitol Hill Police only had about a quarter of their 2,000 officers on duty during the protest, first. When the protest started to get out of control there was no communication from their leadership and no backup. So, the attack swept the Capitol while the police kept the protesters from hurting anyone inside.
Then, House and Senate leaders were trying to get the DC National Guard to save them. However, the national National Guard head refused, saying that theyr didn't have clearance to request that. Trump refused to support intervention since he was obviously hoping that his people would stop the count much more permanently than they did. Finally, Mike Pence apparently intervened, and got the head of the Army to send the guard directly. He then counted the votes properly as he was supposed to according to law. Good on him, it was extremely important that he refused to support Trump's coup.
But to return to the top, this moment ofdecenty from Pence sure didn't last long, because now he is apparently refusing to declare Trump unfit to stay in the office of President and enact the 25th Amendment as is needed, because he wants to play both sides and not anger either side too much or something and keep open his delusional hopes of being President himself someday. Awful behavior there. Impeachment will clearly be necessary. But hey, at least he did the right things yesterday.
Lastly, it is good to see many people, including Joe Biden and Michelle Obama, pointing out the same thing my first post above did, that this police responce was, even with the qualifications above of how Trump wanted the protesters to get in, a very VERY different response than those same police officers would have havd to a black crowd.
2) All members of the House and Senate that voted for the coup by voting to refuse certification of Arizona and Pennsylvania's votes -- and this is 7 Senators and a full ~120 members of the House, over half of the Republican delegation -- should be immediately expelled from Congress and potentially charged as well if what they did qualifies as sedition. I watched almost eight hours of the count yesterday; I usually don't watch that kind of thing, but couldn't stop myself and watched most of the time from 8pm to the final finish nat like 3:45am. The House Republicans tried to couch their voite as being "about just making sure the vote is accurate" and about how much thhey disliked Pennsylvania's election laws (because see laws enacted by a Secretary of State or a court should not count, the Constitution says that only a legislature may make election laws!), but that they only object to one race on that ballot makes it clear that that was a blatant pack of lies, as one of the best speeches of the night, Conor Lamb's, made clear. No, no matter what lies they had in their words, their votes were more telling. They voted as they did to show their support for Donald Trump and his mob of MAGA insurrectionists above all and they should not stay in the Congress. They probably WILL stay in congress to be clear, I can't see them actually being thrown out, but they shouldn't.
3) If those efforts fail, let's just hope Trump is blocked from doing anything significant in the two weeks he has left.
On that note, we now know that the Capitol Hill Police only had about a quarter of their 2,000 officers on duty during the protest, first. When the protest started to get out of control there was no communication from their leadership and no backup. So, the attack swept the Capitol while the police kept the protesters from hurting anyone inside.
Then, House and Senate leaders were trying to get the DC National Guard to save them. However, the national National Guard head refused, saying that theyr didn't have clearance to request that. Trump refused to support intervention since he was obviously hoping that his people would stop the count much more permanently than they did. Finally, Mike Pence apparently intervened, and got the head of the Army to send the guard directly. He then counted the votes properly as he was supposed to according to law. Good on him, it was extremely important that he refused to support Trump's coup.
But to return to the top, this moment ofdecenty from Pence sure didn't last long, because now he is apparently refusing to declare Trump unfit to stay in the office of President and enact the 25th Amendment as is needed, because he wants to play both sides and not anger either side too much or something and keep open his delusional hopes of being President himself someday. Awful behavior there. Impeachment will clearly be necessary. But hey, at least he did the right things yesterday.
Lastly, it is good to see many people, including Joe Biden and Michelle Obama, pointing out the same thing my first post above did, that this police responce was, even with the qualifications above of how Trump wanted the protesters to get in, a very VERY different response than those same police officers would have havd to a black crowd.